What was different about the old board?

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In short, as the stigma associated with doubt evaporates people may be getting their support elsewhere, possibly through communication that is more personal than a message board.

Good point. I've never thought about it like that before. But you are right, and really maybe that is better for some people too.

Oh, I saw The Simpson's episode your avatar is from the other day. I was like "Nibbler! Yayayayay!!!!!"

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Re: The library at Alexandria.

I'm going to approach this topic stupidly. You ever play a video game where you're slowly and meticulously trying to do everything absolutely perfect, explore every square inch of a level, make sure you conserve ammo, try to be as stealthy as possible to earn the bonus X, do the extra difficult bits to get a few tricky achievements... and you round the corner and get one-shot by an enemy or the game crashes and only then do you discover that it's been three hours since your last save and now you're going to have to do it all over again.

Sometimes I yell !@#^% and start the process over. Sometimes it's been sooooo long since my last save that I view the task of repeating all the unsaved activity over again as too daunting and time consuming. I either:

1) Turn the game off and come back several days later for when I have the patience to meticulously do everything again.
2) Say "screw it" and repeat that section of the level, except much less meticulously. I just rush everything to get back where I was and forgo all the achievements, extra collectibles, conserved ammo, bonus XP, etc.

NOM 1.0 - The meticulous play-thorough.
Whatever happened to NOM 1.0 - Rounding the corner and getting one-shot by an enemy or the game crashes.
NOM 2.0 - Trying to rush things to get everything back to the way it was... except some of the relationships and other niceties can't be rushed... but maybe it's hard to have that patience to rewrite the entire library of Alexandria. Something had to give.

Now you are speaking my language! My son and I were playing a fun Metroidvania platformer called Hollow Knight and he accidentally deleted our saved game. We probably had 30+ hours in on it. I can't play 30 hours of video games in a week or even a month like I used to, so starting over was so daunting that we haven't played since. I think this highlights a third option when you lose your saved game:

3) never playing again.

I think a lot of people on the NOM 1.0 feel that way. Also, I haven't recreated any of my old content; I still haven't posted an introduction here, I just post and read as I need it. A lot of the old timers don't need it anymore (hopefully).